really beautiful stuff.

The Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things

Some of Scott Miller's best songwriting, minus (for the most part) the self-indulgent tangents that sometimes marred his other Game Theory and Loud Family albums. Great production work by Mitch Easter as well.

Cornelius - Sensuous
Kinda dissapointed with this one. The production is flawless and the songs are pleasant enough, but something's missing.


Converge - No Heroes
On repeat all morning. Brilliant.

besides the new stuff I rave about in several threads:



The Sea and Cake - The Fawn
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Beach Boys - Surf's Up

Surf's Up just keeps getting better and better each time I hear it. It might start climbing into top albums ever soon.

And I'm tellin' ya...this sounds like Phish at times...and that's ok by me. Really.

s/t
Nice little reissue w/ 5 bonus tracks

I'm a bastard, bastard!

yes, this is fucking great. I've been listening nonstop since last night.

Kinda disappointed that I'm just now finding out about this band. Fantastic dirty, gritty, rock and roll by people old enough to be grandparents to some of the younger SOMBies.

Top stuff - I was pimping this a while back. Will definitely have to return to it soon.

Also, Burzum: that Burning Witch album a re-issue? It's got a different cover to mine.

God damn do I love Gomez. Got this in the mail today, two unreleased tracks, 34 other singles and b-sides, it's brilliant. I have to listen to this now, even though it's 2:15am, because I just listened to, and was disappointed by this:

BDB made baby Jesus cry with this. Or at least me. Someone please convince me I'm wrong, I just really hope I'm jumping to conclusions here.

Did I miss this in the Fish thread? Also, new BDB? I personally think BDB lost it after (actually, a little bit during) the About a Boy soundtrack, but I'm curious.

George Michael's "One More Try"... what a fucking great song.

honestly i'm pretty pleased by it so far...

i've learned it's just stupid to expect another record the caliber of Bewilderbeast... while Damon is a fantastic artist & songwriter, i think he just got a bit lucky w/ how amazing that record is...

is it amazing so far? nah, but i think i like it better than Fish and possibly 1+1 already...

This leaked? Where have I been?!?

Hangover music:

Used vinyl purchase yesterday - I forgot how great this record was.

Lindsey Buckingham – Under The Skin
My Brightest Diamond – Bring Me The Workhorse
Junior Boys – Last Exit
Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye

Being the typical American that I am, I never really bothered with any of the Bur albums that didn't produce singles in the US. Even while a lot of people I trust (on this board and elsewhere) say great things about this (and Leisure and Modern Life Is Rubbish, too), I just never took the bait, until now.

This is Parklife's equal and as good as anything else they've done. I know I'm probably preaching to the choir, though.

Ugly cover, beautiful record. It's missing some of the rock of the last disc, but it'll make for a perfect winter record.

new purchases for the evening:





Post War was the only one I hadn't heard. Sounds good but I'm still more found of Transistor Radio after the first listen.

Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan

This is a gorgeous Sunday night album.

Just aquired about 500 or so albums that have been sitting in a relative's garage for the past few decades. So far, I got through some interesting Who bootlegs, the soundtrack to The Egyptian, and the above. I'm gonna need some industrial-strength record cleaner.

Trey Anastasio - Bar 17

This is actually pretty damn good, I'm willing to say its the best studio disc he's put out since firing up the solo gig full-time. Surprising variety throughout, from the rocking "Dragonfly" and "Mud City" to the slower "Goodbye Head" to the jammed out title track. Maybe it just helps that I got to see quite a few of these tracks played live this summer with the Benevento-Russo duo, but they sound pretty great here. Loads and loads of guests on this disc, including the forementioned Duo as well as Mike and Fishman. If you've yet to dive into solo Trey, give this disc a shot - nice balance between the jam tendencies and the more straightforward rock stuff from Shine.

And spending some time with 2006 albums I haven't listened to enough, or haven't listene to in awhile:



Film School - Film School

"11:11" is still a killer track, along with several others, but this still hasn't grabbed me as a whole.



The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

This one certainly ain't getting any better with time.



Oneida - Happy New Year

Another solid release by these guys, but still not the drop-dead killer I know they have in them.

Man, this sounded good in the car this morning.

Weird stuff today:

Thanks izzy!


So bad that it's ALMOST good. Reynolds as a crooner country guy is almost too much. Thanks for sharing this insanity Sid.

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Plus a couple mixes

Early frontrunner to win the "unintentionally awful album cover of the year" award. If only they got rid of that damn girls face, then it might have been decent. Urgh. (The album is good at least)

I'm so pissed about missing the Grizzly Bear and TVOTR show. Ah well.

This new Califone sounds alright to me.

kept me sustained while I visited colleges this weekend.

holy shit is this good!

Effin' sweet.

Sadly, I think I'm going to side with the naysayers - this just makes me want to listen to his good records.

This record has been owning me for the last few days. Big ups to aneg for burning a copy so I'd listen to it in my car and eventually realize the genius. "Fading Into Obscurity" is the best AOR/pop/rock opera Ween never wrote.

I'm way late to the party, but I gotta say this is basically post of the year. Ryan continues to deliver.

Hmm... never noticed the similarity to Ween until you mentioned it. I could see that. Especially the opening section.

Boris - Vein

Got this in the mail today. I guess this is Boris' hardcore album. It opens and closes with fairly typical Boris-style doom/drone tracks, but in between are 9 or 10 short, fast punk songs. Not what I expected at all but it's great stuff. Hopefully someone will make a nice rip of this and put it on Oink. More people deserve to hear it.

That disc is cool as hell. I'm tempted to buy it as a fetishist collectible item.

Yeah, it's a gorgeous piece of vinyl. Good luck getting one, the label's website sold out in less than a day. Some stores will have copies and I guess Boris got a few hundred to sell at their shows and eventually through Inoxia, but they will go fast.

Fairly kickass quadruple play on the radio over lunch. Not sure which station.

"Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
"Harder to Breathe"
"Move Along"
"Train in Vain"

Remember when Motley Crue was the biggest band in the world for about a year after Appetite and before Metallica & Nevermind? That was awesome. Before you chortle, I have one word for you: Nickelback. That's right, we had it good.

Doesn't touch Reasonable Doubt at all IMO. Not bad, but nowhere near as fun, impressive, or easy of a listen.

Sorry Sloan, this is probably THE power pop album of 2006.

I've been looking for mp3s of this album for years, and finally found it tonight.

This is the best-produced album I've heard in months. The sound quality and arrangements fantastic, even tho the lyrics drop the ball at least once every track. Bottom line: I can't stop listening to it:

What a day. First 'Boris - Vein' arrives in the post (what an erotic piece of vinyl that is) and then Skream's debut leaks

I was listening to these but there are now more pressing issues at hand